Seventeen-year-old Madeline May Maddie Richardson is a dynamic classically trained concert pianist with plans to attend The Juilliard School in the fall. For the first time in years shes taking a break to spend the summer with her extended family in California. Whats supposed to be a quiet respite turns into days volunteering at her aunts youth center in a rough Los Angeles neighborhood as well as opportunities-and-love-she could have never imagined. By summers end shes forced to make a tough decision: choose whats right or whats absolutely necessary.